SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Creative impression of Silver birch (Betula pendula) foliage, Creagellachie NNR, Cairngorms National Park, Scotland, UK.May

Sven Zacek / Beaver (Castor fiber) felling a Birch (Betula sp) tree for winter supplies. Tartumaa, Southern Estonia. November.

David Allemand / Birch tree (Betula sp) next to waterfall, Iceland. Runner-Up in the Plants category of the International OasisPhotoContest 2018

Guy Edwardes / Trees reflected in Loch Tummel, Perthshire, Scotland, UK. October, 2014.

Bernard Castelein / Birch tree (Betula pendula) covered in hoar frost, Groot Schietveld, Wuustwezel, Belgium, December 2007.

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) on old pine tree, looking through autumn birch foliage, Scotland, UK, October. Highly Commended in the Habitat Category of the British Wildlife Photography Awards (BWPA...

Niall Benvie / Birch (Betula) at moonrise, Loch Shieldaig, Torridon, Scotland

Theo Bosboom / Birch tree (Betula pendula) with lichen, camouflaged against lichen covered rock face, Muddus National Park, Sweden. September 2014. Highly commended in GDT European Wildlife Photographer of the Yea...

Sven Zacek / Frozen Birch trees (Betula sp) in a grove, Tartumaa, Estonia, January 2013.

Sandra Bartocha / Silver birch (Betula pendula) and Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) trunks in snow, Muritz-National Park, Germany, January.

Sandra Bartocha / Silver birch (Betula pendula) with Heather (Calluna vulgaris) in full bloom, Reicherskreuzer Heide, Nature Reserve Schlaubetal, Germany, August.

Pal Hermansen / Birch tree (Betula sp) growing up through old rusting car at night. Bastnas car graveyard, Sweden, July. Winner of the Portfolio category in the Melvita Nature Images Awards competition 2014.